#rather

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ↗

— George Eliot

#each #expect #experience #lying #men

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#done #gladly #god #grieve #rather

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i see #medium #narrative #picture #rather

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#audiences #be happy #bigger #change #get

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really. ↗

— Neil Finn

#because #being #completely #exciting #heroes

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms. ↗

— John M. Ford

#also #been #course #culture #describe

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#find #interesting #large #life #like

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cambridge #inmates #like #love #mere

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #cultivate #employer #even #extensively

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#peace #president #rather #than #world